A Former Department Store Now Houses Charities
Hurricane Katrina sent five feet of putrid water spilling into the offices of My House Center for Learning, a ALSO SEE:Special Report: Rebuilding the World a Storm Destroyed New Orleans charity that serves troubled youngsters. Faced with the moldy, uninhabitable mess, My House Center turned into a…
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
By Nicole Wallace The National Center for Law and Economic Justice — formerly known as the Welfare Law Center — plans to end its Low Income Networking and Communications Project in August because of a lack of money. Since its founding in 1998, the LINC Project has helped grass-roots antipoverty…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lobbying Groups Fear a Move in Congress
By Nicole WallaceTwo coalitions of advocacy groups and technology companies are fighting a new move that threatens nonprofit organizations’ ability to conduct e-mail campaigns. The House Chief Administrative Officer has made software available to members of Congress that requires visitors to their…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Video Games Play Budding Role in Touting Charity Work
DISPATCHES By Ian Wilhelm Stacey Peña leads a truck convoy filled with rice and beans through a white desert, hoping the rough terrain doesn’t puncture a tire. She scouts ahead for broken bridges and land mines as she tries to reach a refugee camp filled with starving people who have fled their…
Bits: Katrin Verclas Appointed Executive Director Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
The Community Technology Centers’ Network will hold its 15th annual conference in Washington July 27-29. The meeting will highlight the history of and changes and innovations in the field of community technology. For more information: Go to http://www.ctcnet.org. Katrin Verclas has been appointed…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Mass. Company Adds Online Fund-Raising Service
For the past 17 years, the Target Analysis Group has analyzed and compared direct-mail fund-raising data for charities to show them how they fared relative to other organizations. Now, the Cambridge, Mass., company is incorporating online fund-raising into its analysis. Target expects 12 to 15…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Urged to Monitor Congress Internet Debate
A contentious debate about how to regulate the Internet, now before Congress, is full of technical jargon and confusing dueling slogans, such as “Hands Off the Internet” and “Save the Internet.” But media-policy experts are urging charities not to tune it out, because the outcome could have a major…
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
More graduate students are gaining hands-on experience while providing free services to charities Matt Forti would like to run a nonprofit group one day. But for now he must content himself with helping to manage organizations run by others. Fortunately for Mr. Forti, 27, a graduate student at…
By Michael Anft
Contributor
By Nicole Wallace American Humanics has released a new bibliography and literature review entitled “Workforce Issues in the Nonprofit Sector: Generational Leadership Change and Diversity.” It is available in the Initiative for Nonprofit Sector Careers section of the organization’s Web site, under…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Topic of Grant-Maker Seminar
By Nicole WallaceThe Innovation Funders Network plans to hold a conference call for grant makers on “net neutrality” on June 9. The concept of net neutrality refers to the practice of handling all data traveling over the Internet in the same way, no matter which companies’ networks deliver it.…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Regulators Offered Access to Charity Financial Figures
By Harvy LipmanGuideStar is developing a new online service designed to make it easier for government regulators to check on the financial performance of nonprofit groups. The new section of GuideStar’s Web Site, to be called gov@GuideStar, will allow subscribers to search for information contained…
By Harvy Lipman
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New Web Site Offers Data on Donors
By Leah KerkmanThe Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, in Washington, announced a new Web site that features articles and other information on emerging trends in giving. As part of the New Ventures in Philanthropy Initiative, the site — Donors of the Future Online Knowledge Center —…
By Leah Kerkman
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Intel Pledges $1-Billion Over Next Five Years
By Leah KerkmanIntel, the computer-chip manufacturer, in Santa Clara, Calif., has said it will spend $1-billion in the next five years to expand computer access in developing countries. The program, Intel World Ahead, will seek to extend wireless broadband access to at least one billion new users.…
By Leah Kerkman
Contributor
New Prize Honors Software for Social-Change Groups
By Nicole WallaceA new prize will honor public-interest software development. The Florence and Frances Family Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Tides Foundation, in San Francisco, is sponsoring what will be an annual competition to honor software programmers who develop open-source software that…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
African Health Charity Wages Online Battle
By Nicole WallaceThe African Medical and Research Foundation is waging war on malaria and turning to the Internet for new recruits. Visitors to the Nairobi health organization’s new SWAT Malaria Web site can learn about the disease’s human toll in sub-Saharan Africa, the obstacles it poses to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Forum Explores Fees in E-Mail’s Future
By Nicole WallaceLater this month, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network will broadcast a panel discussion online entitled “Is Paying for E-Mail Delivery Inevitable?” Nonprofit leaders and business executives will discuss America Online’s recently announced plans to allow marketers who send…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor